I am honestly confused beyond belief about my package that I have installed for FFMPEG. It is, according to Synaptic, version:

4:0.8.1-1really0u1

For some reason, I feel like this is not the version that would come in the repositories and I feel like another PPA that I may have used installed a wrong version. I believe it was the VLC PPA for nightly builds.

Can anyone who does not have this PPA on their system tell me what version of FFMPEG they are running?

My reason for wanting the package that you have is because the really0u1 version is terrible with dependencies of other programs. I checked Synaptic after I deleted the VLC PPA, and now it reads version "0ubuntu1", but using FFMPEG in command line reads "really0u1"....Any thoughts? This did answer my question, so I'll upvote and accept, but if you could help me with this by chance that would be awesome.
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Ryan McClureJun 1 '12 at 21:27

Just removing the PPA won't do it, you need to replace it with the "official" version. See edits towards bottom of answer
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izxJun 1 '12 at 21:33

I gave what you had mentioned in the edit a try. It reinstalled (had to use --reinstall), but it still when I use it in Terminal reads ffmpeg version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-1really0u1
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Ryan McClureJun 1 '12 at 21:40

Just trying to point out that removing a transitional package won't remove the ffmpeg binary that was previously installed. I'd remove libav-tools if installed, then re-install. Or not use "ffmpeg" command at all
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dougJun 1 '12 at 22:10